SGoodman

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    I'm a Jew and a convert.
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  1. Statistics are the most misunderstood and misused of facts. Child of record baptisms and convert baptisms are increasing. They are simply increasing at a pace slightly below the increase in population. Over the last 6 years the Church dropped a whopping .08% as a percentage of the US population (that's just under 1/10 of 1 percent). And though Carborendum failed to mention it, that is limited to the US. The growth of the Church outside the US is even higher (though our numbers as a percent of population are much lower. It's a big world).
  2. Statistics are the most misunderstood and misused of facts. Child of record baptisms and convert baptisms are increasing. They are simply increasing at a pace slightly below the increase in population. Over the last 6 years the Church dropped a whopping .08% as a percentage of the US population (that's just under 1/10 of 1 percent). And though Carborendum failed to mention it, that is limited to the US. The growth of the Church outside the US is even higher (though our numbers as a percent of population are much lower. It's a big world).
  3. Statistics are the most misunderstood and misused of facts. Child of record baptisms and convert baptisms are increasing. They are simply increasing at a pace slightly below the increase in population. Over the last 6 years the Church dropped a whopping .08% as a percentage of the US population (that's just under 1/10 of 1 percent). And though Carborendum failed to mention it, that is limited to the US. The growth of the Church outside the US is even higher (though our numbers as a percent of population are much lower. It's a big world).
  4. Statistics are the most misunderstood and misused of facts. Child of record baptisms and convert baptisms are increasing. They are simply increasing at a pace slightly below the increase in population. Over the last 6 years the Church dropped a whopping .08% as a percentage of the US population (that's just under 1/10 of 1 percent). And though Carborendum failed to mention it, that is limited to the US. The growth of the Church outside the US is even higher (though our numbers as a percent of population are much lower. It's a big world).
  5. Statistics are the most misunderstood and misused of facts. Child of record baptisms and convert baptisms are increasing. They are simply increasing at a pace slightly below the increase in population. Over the last 6 years the Church dropped a whopping .08% as a percentage of the US population (that's just under 1/10 of 1 percent). And though Carborendum failed to mention it, that is limited to the US. The growth of the Church outside the US is even higher (though our numbers as a percent of population are much lower. It's a big world).
  6. Sometimes it's hard to keep in mind but people are as they have always been. I look at photos from the 1800s and it's an effort to remember that these individuals were just as sophisticated and intelligent as we are. They were just working off a smaller body of information. The question was about these latter days. People being what they are and always have been, there is no more or less evil in the world than there always has been. The difference is that the world is becoming increasingly polarized. There are more and more people at the far edges of extraodinary righteousness and extraordinarily evil. i assume this pattern will continue until the world is entirely divided down the middle and the Savior steps in and divides the two camps.
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  11. Jeff Foxworthy gave us the "You might be a redneck" style of jokes. Here are some tailored for Mormons. If your first car is a minvan, you just might be a Mormon. If a three bedroom home counts as a starter home, you might be a Mormon. If "The First Vision" isn't a reference to anything you did in the sixties, you might be a Mormon. If a Stake isn't for holding down a tent and a Ward isn't a child in your custody, you might be a Mormon. If you have more money invested in food in your basement than in clothes in your closet, you might be a Mormon. If you're at a wedding and the bride isn't pregnant....but her mother is, you might be a Mormon. And the last one is my favorite even though it isn't funny... If you go to great lengths and expense to do a service you don't understand for people you don't know who may or may not want it anyway, you may be a Mormon.
  12. I was told that most Mormon women stop having children after 34.... Because 35 is just too many.
  13. Reading through everyone's posts it seems that most are trying to identify and address whatever societal dynamic is responsible for creating these killers. I think it would be far easier to address the symptom, that is the killings themselves. If it were possible to take all the guns away (it isn't) then the problem would go away as well. Since we can't remove all the guns the next best solution is gun proliferation. If the vast majority of citizens were armed then arms are no longer much of an advantage. (Reminds me of the scene in Aladin where the monkey grabs a sword and the guards all recoil in fear "he's got a sword!" Then one of them remembers "you idiot, we all have swords!")
  14. Reading through everyone's posts it seems that most are trying to identify and address whatever societal dynamic is responsible for creating these killers. I think it would be far easier to address the symptom, that is the killings themselves. If it were possible to take all the guns away (it isn't) then the problem would go away as well. Since we can't remove all the guns the next best solution is gun proliferation. If the vast majority of citizens were armed then arms are no longer much of an advantage. (Reminds me of the scene in Aladin where the monkey grabs a sword and the guards all recoil in fear "he's got a sword!" Then one of them remembers "you idiot, we all have swords!")
  15. She was talking about the fact that one who is identified as a decendent of Levi automatically being the Bishop of whatever Ward they are in. They are not required to call counsellors or hold the Melchizedec Preisthood in order to be Bishop. I'm neither of Levi nor Ephraim. I'm from Judah.